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Dead Girls Are Easy (Nicki Styx, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Terri Garey
Publisher: Avon
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 72392
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0061136158
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061136153
ASIN: 0061136158
Publication Date: September 1, 2007
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Product Description
There's something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx—she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush with the afterlife leaves her with the ability to see dead people. Before you can say boo, Atlanta's ghosts are knocking at Nicki's door. Now her days consist of reluctantly cleaning up messes left by the dearly departed, leading ghouls to the Light . . . and one-on-one anatomy lessons with Dr. Joe Bascombe, the dreamy surgeon who saved her life. All this catering to the deceased is a real drag, especially for a girl who'd rather be playing hanky-panky with her hunky new boyfriend . . . who's beginning to think she's totally nuts. But things get even more complicated when a friend foolishly sells her soul to the devil, and Nicki's new gift lands her in some deep voodoo. As it turns out for Nicki Styx, death was just the beginning.
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 Not a good ending November 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As many books this one has everything you'd like to read in a paranormal book. The problem is the end of it because you'll wait for the punch line and it'll never come. So you if you read the book don't expect more than a so so end.
 Good Paranormal Story October 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like the paranormal romances and though that this would be a good read. I was right. Nikki Styx has a close call and dies but is revived. When she comes to, she can see dead people. After a little bit of denial, she decides that the best way is to help them and get them to go into the light.
Then she sees her best friend, dead, and learns that the boyfriend did it. Nikki doesn't believe the boyfriend could do suck a think and gets sucked into a world of voodoo and evil spirits from there.
I really like the banter between the characters and the humor to death in itself. I would recommend this book to everyone to read and cannot wait to read Match Made in Hell.
 More Enthusiasm Than Skill August 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with the readers who complained about the ? marks instead of proper punctuation and the many "wannas" and "gonnas." They make what is a slight story to begin with an annoyance to follow. The premise is interesting, which is why I picked up the book in the first place, but the execution is sloppy and in great need of a good editor and proofreader - especially the editor. One would hope that future books in the series will be more carefully tended to, since the book seems to have an enthusiastic following already. Nicki is a charismatic character, though not developed enough for my taste. That will change in future episodes, one hopes. However, I would classify this book more as YA than as adult fiction.
Regarding the Kindle Edition July 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this on my Kindle. For some reason? many of the commas are replaced by question marks? in the Kindle version. This is quite distracting. Please edit the Kindle version.
That said, this was a quick, fun read. I will read the next book in the series.
 No Disappearing Spirits, here July 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What do you get when you take a quirky, fashion-conscious goth girl, a near death experience, a hunky ER doctor & add a mixed bag of ghostly visitors? You get Terri Garey's hilariously funny first novel, Dead Girls are Easy. When you read this book, you'd never think this was Ms. Garey's first foray into the paranormal fantasy & romance world. In Nicki Styx, she has created a wonderful, warm & wacky heroine. Nicki has a congenital problem that leads to just plain weird problems. Nicki's heart has a problem that brings her literally to Death's Door & the White Light. However, Nicki get's sent back with a purpose. Do unto others....The problem becomes "the others" she has to help; she must help ghosts with issues that attach them to this mortal coil, still, so they can pass on to The Light.
Nicki has some grudging helpers in this new world of Ghostly Counseling & Errand Running. She met the gorgeous, boy-next-door adorable Dr. Joe Bascombe in the ER. He proves to be indispensable to Nicki, in efforts to rid herself of malicious, Voodoo practicing ghosts, & in the romantic realm, too. Nicki also has a best friend with too much fashion sense for one man, who co-owns a vintage clothing shop with Nicki. Evan & his boyfriend, Butch, provide emotional support & a running peanut gallery commentary on Nicki's new status as Ghost Greeter.
We met Nicki & her ragtag motley crew in the ER, after a nearly fatal heart failure. Things quickly become complicated for Nicki when she realizes that the ghostly visitors she's receiving are not the result of medications, but real not-so-flesh & blood ghostly apparitions. Once she is back home, Nicki runs into an old friend who has met a bad end. Sadly, for Nicki, the friend was also a practicing Voodoo Queen in the back room of her little shop across the way from Nicki & Evan's store. Nicki finds herself in the unenviable position of trying to get back to "normal", save herself & Evan from the Voodoo machinations of her former friend, & light the fires of romance with Dr. Joe.
For fans of Sherrilyn Kenyon, or Laurell K. Hamilton, this book will fit right in on your book shelf. Ms. Garey penned a fast paced, funny, eccentric novel. The dialog is snappy & quick-witted. The characters are definitely individuals; no cookie-cutter heroines & heroes, here. And the plot is twisty & fun. As with any first book in a series, there is a certain amount of set up to be handled, & Ms. Garey has blended this into her storyline nicely, so it does not detract from the immediate tale, yet informs you along the way. If this book had a musical theme, it would be an interesting, individual piece of music with definite industrial, goth overtones, but with a nice, bouncy, jazzy feel underlying the melody.
Kudos to Ms. Garey for a fantastic first book. The RITA nominations for Best First Novel & Best Paranormal Romance are well deserved.
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